美国泄密者、前监控承包商爱德华·斯诺登也对这些测试提出了批评。2013年,斯诺登泄露了大量从美国国家安全局非法获得的材料。
“They always tell us the tools of mass surveillance are intended for use only against the faraway Other; the foreign enemy, the terrorist, the criminal,” Snowden said in a tweet。 “And then, just a few years later, we realize precisely the same system secretly surrounds us at home。”
“他们总是告诉我们,大规模监控的工具只针对遥远的其他目标;外国敌人,恐怖分子,罪犯,”斯诺登在推特上说道。“然后,仅仅几年之后,我们就意识到,同样的系统恰恰也在我们身边悄悄存在。”
▲Pentagon testing ‘spy balloons’ across Midwest for ‘persistent’ domestic surveillance (via RT)
爱荷华州住宅区(图 via Alamy)
整合:Du Qiongfang
资料:The Guardian, Newsweek, RT
图/题图:AFP, Getty Images, Alamy